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I was surprised to see earlier this off-season that Tejada played in the minors for the Orioles in 2012.

Considering he's made over $95 million in his career, I guess you have to give him a lot of credit for loving the game, that he would be willing to do that. (Well, either that or complete financial irresponsibility, I suppose.)

Mock all you want, but Miggy was one of my favorite A's ever. He was a fun player to root for and he had a great career. He just seems to love playing ball so I wouldn't be surprised to see him popping up on semi-pro teams playing for free when the Royals get around to cutting him.

Aside from Fernandez, every other close comp by batting, career length, and position is in the HOF or HOM or both. Tejada's problems making either Hall will come from a relative lack of speed & defensive ability. (Though I wonder if he was really that bad at SS; he didn't play an inning anywhere else till he was 36 and slow and terrible; aside from Derek Jeter, playing incessantly at one position often means you're good at it. He looked pretty good, but his range was evidently Jeterian.)

Well, there's also the B12 thing. And the MVP he mightn't have really deserved. But heck, he had a different season where he drove in 150 freaking runs. He was quite a ballplayer.

Though many believe he didn't deserve the MVP for that season, I bet he'll eventually get a lot of 'intangible' type credit (a la the Morris case) for the 20-game streak.

Yeah, he had the best narrative that year but he clearly wasn't the MVP. He was kind of lovable with the A's, too, which gets forgotten with everything that happened re: steroids and birth certificates later, so I think the writers wanted to vote for him rather than for guys who seemed vastly more douche-tastic like A-Rod, Giambi or Ramirez.

Mock all you want, but Miggy was one of my favorite A's ever. He was a fun player to root for and he had a great career. He just seems to love playing ball so I wouldn't be surprised to see him popping up on semi-pro teams playing for free when the Royals get around to cutting him.

He definitely had his moments... I remember the Best ASG Chatter Ever Thread™ and the story of the late thread, had it none been for Uggla having the worst inning in the history of innings, I think Tejeda's energy level would have been the story... Old and slow though he might have been, he was definitely hustling in the field.